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I'm sure you're already aware of this, but Amazon announced its first tablet - a 7-inch device called the Kindle Fire - at a press event in New York on Wednesday. However, for many months now, rumors have claimed the company has been working on two tablets, one of which is a larger 10-inch device that is reportedly the real iPad competitor.

IBM announced Thursday that it has received $21 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a series of experimental computer chips designed to replicate the human brain's perceptive, active and cognitive abilities.

this is awesome! its an app that you can download onto your iphone or ipad and its basically a recording studio, you buy the jack for 149.95, it lets you record on the go. you just plug in the guitar to the jack attach the jack to your iphone tune it up the you could record anywhere you are. it runs off of the iphones battery so you never have to worry about that.

Following a statement from the company earlier today to confirm that it is working to restore BlackBerry services around the world, RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has release a video in which he apologizes to BlackBerry users for over three days of downtime affecting BlackBerry Messenger, email, and internet access.

It's now been three days since RIM's BlackBerry services went down, leaving users all over the world stranded without BlackBerry Messenger, email, and internet access. Despite promises on Tuesday that services were restored and working normally, millions of users have continued to report issues with their devices.

these glasses may be big and attached to a pack which must be carried with you, but it is pretty cool. these glasses may not look like much, but when you where them and turn them on, it displays a projection screen about 1 meter away from your eyes. like what you always see in spy movies or something. the little packs can attach to your belt, and displays it like a screen, it is meant for workers so that they can view the manual when working on something without climbing down to get it. NEC will start shipping these out on Dec 26(the day after Christmas) and I think that it will prove to be very useful in every day situations. it is priced at 400,000 yen or $5,200, but the software is at 1.9 million yen or $25,000

CSS is going to add a new style of viewing the site; pages. The user would have to flip each page to get to the next part of the site. Although this is mainly directed for tablets, it will still be able to work on laptops and desktops. This is ideal for not spoiling the article by only giving a piece at a time and it also gives the traditional feel of reading a book.

Apple tries to make many of their products very easy to use but now Apple has made something very complicated. The new iCloud is actually very difficult to work with. One advantage is that downloading it is free. But the disadvantage is that if you were with MobileMe and now switching to iCloud its complicated to download and can make you go crazy. So is iCloud really that easy?

Nokia is developing a new device that is bendable. it is supposed to work similarly to other touch screen devices, but instead of pinching to zoom in and out, you would bend the screen. i think this is a good idea for children, because i assume that since the screen is bendable, it is shatterproof. this is ideal for clumsy children who often drop things